2008-2009 UEFA Cup Last 32 Draw

UEFA Cup 2008-2009
Knockout Stage (Round of 32)

(First Leg 18/19 February and Second Leg 26 February)

• Paris St Germain vs Wolfsburg
• FC Copenhagen vs Manchester City
• NEC Nijmegen vs Hamburg
• Sampdoria vs Metalist Kharkiv
• Braga vs Standard Liege
• Aston Villa vs CSKA Moscow
• Lech Poznan vs Udinese
• Olympiakos vs St Etienne
• Fiorentina vs Ajax
• Aalborg vs Deportivo La Coruna
• Werder Bremen vs AC Milan
• Bordeaux vs FC Galatasaray
• Dynamo Kiev vs Valencia
• Zenit St Petersburg vs VfB Stuttgart
• Marseille vs FC Twente
• Shakhtar Donetsk vs Tottenham Hot Spur

UEFA Cup This Week Feb 21, 2008

UEFA Cup - Round 32 (snd)
Thursday, 21 February 2008

16.00 Bayer Leverkusen v Galatasaray------Live Here
16.00 Hamburg v FC Zurich
16.30 Spartak Moscow v Marseille
17.00 Panathinaikos v Rangers
17.45 Bayern Munich v Aberdeen

19.45 Helsingborgs IF v PSV
19.45 Fiorentina v Rosenborg
19.45 Getafe v AEK Athens
19.45 Bordeaux v Anderlecht
19.45 Tottenham v Slavia Prague
19.45 Villarreal v Zenit St Petersburg
19.45 Atletico Madrid v Bolton

20.00 Everton v SK Brann
20.00 Basle v Sporting
20.00 Nuremburg v Benfica
21.30 Braga v Werder Bremen

The UEFA Cup

The UEFA Cup (also known as European Cup 3, CE3 or C3) is a football competition for European club teams, organized by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). It is the second most important international competition for European football clubs, after the UEFA Champions League. Clubs qualify for the UEFA Cup based on their performance in national leagues and cup competitions.

It began in 1971 and replaced the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. In 1999 the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was abolished and merged with the UEFA Cup. While the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup is considered a pre-cursor to the UEFA Cup for records purposes, this does not apply to the Cup Winners' Cup.

Sevilla FC are the current holders of the UEFA Cup, having won the competition for the second year in a row. The 2007 UEFA Cup Final took place at Hampden Park in Glasgow, Scotland, on 16 May 2007. They beat fellow Spaniards RCD Espanyol on penalties.

The final for the 2007-08 season will be played at the City of Manchester Stadium, home of English Premier League side Manchester City.

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